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Have the PL assign another patrol member go with the Grubmaster to shop for food. It takes some of the burden off of the Grubmaster and because most Scouts don’t drive, the Scouts need to coordinate with the parents on when to go shopping. Having two scouts (and their parents) helps to eliminate the "I forgot" Syndrome When do your patrol create their menus? Last year we moved to making them two meetings before a campout (we meet on Monday nights) with money due the Monday before a campout. This gives the Scouts plenty of time to figure out when to meet to go shopping. You can

I am with fred johnson with the idea that packs and troops need to be one unit. A few years ago when I was DC we had a pack that was down to 4 W2's and was ready to fold. I was contacted by a Troop about it as this was their primary feeder Pack and didn't want to see this fold. I suggested that Troop Committee take over the Pack and get things going again. They didn't actually do this but got an ASM to become Cubmaster and the SM's wife became the CC and they began to rebuild the Pack. When I ended up joining the Pack 2 years later it had grown to 25+ and it has grown every year since doing th

during my "speach" I reminded everyone that Cub Scouts is a volunteer organization and those volunteers come from the parents. Explain that the only way to make the Pack better is to have more people help. make sure to offer that you are available to assist with the planing but will not be able to actually do the work. If no one signs up pick the one or two activities you want to do and cancel the rest. With your son as a W2 make sure his den is doing things. As WEBELOS they can do things as a den, like camping, that the other dens can't do. There is nothing wrong with you concentrating

I was my son’s W2 Den Leader. I was also heading up 90%-95% of the Pack activities. At the January meeting before crossover I made up large signup sheets for every event on the calendar for the rest of the year. I made an announcement that after the B&G I was moving up to the Troop and if these activities where going happen parents had to sign up to plan and run them. Any event that didn’t have a parent to run it won’t happen. All but one event had a parent sign up for it. That event didn’t happen.

I have had quite the discussions about summer camp the last couple of weeks. There were big problems at our council’s summer camp this year and a lot of troops are considering different camps for next year. I think a lot depends on the camp My son’s troop has been going OOC for the last 12 or 13 years and has had people asking us about where we go. We had 29 out of 33 Scouts attend camp this summer and for 2 Scouts it was their 8th summer going. I think we would switch in a heartbeat if the Troop wasn't seeing this kind of participation One SM I talked with t

Thanks for the answers I sounds like someone in our council didn't read the memo fully before speaking One of the people who helps at our event is the NE Area 3 Representative on the National Jewish Committee on Scouting. I just saw them last Saturday and they haven't said a word about this. I am going to their son's Eagle COH in a couple of weeks and will have to ask them about this

The Pack I help with hosts a Cub event the first weekend in Oct. that is falling on Yom Kipper this year. We were told that after this year we could not hold any Scouting events on Yom Kipper. This came through a DE and he said that our SE had a call from National telling him this Has anyone else heard of this?

We have both of these types scheduled Some weekends we are taking popcorn and selling door-to-door. Other weekends we are sitting in front of a business selling it. I was wondering which way sells more popcorn (or any product)

After a couple of years of not doing popcorn my son’s Troop is selling it again this year. I am wondering which way does better. Having product and selling Door-to-Door or setting up a table and selling in front of a business? What does your experience show?

Here's a link to the Cascade Pacific Council's Tomahawk and Knife Throwing Policy http://www.pdxt120.com/library/training/Knife%20&%20Tomahawk%20Throwing%20Policies.pdf When I purchased a set of throwing Tomahawks and throwing knives it came with a guide book that had safety and range instructions I don't remember where I got them but it was a set make for Scouts

My son's Troop goes OOC for summer Camp. They offer IOLS and other training. There are usually 20 to 25 taking IOLS which includes an overnight away from the Troop. Our council tried offer IOLS at summer camp, no one signed up to take it.

Austinole - What are the signs that you can check out like? What do they do for Fall Fest?

Does your council or district do anything (hold events, advertise, flyers, etc.) to help your unit recruit new members? What do they do to help recruit Cub Scouts? Do they do anything for Troops or Crews? Does your District have a written membership plan? Do they share it with you? From our district/council every unit gets a packet with recruitment tips and the council supplies yard signs. All of this is geared towards Cub Scout recruiting. Troops and crews are pretty much on their own to recruit. Our District is looking for ideas for recruiting.

Tahawk - please post the document you are quoting from. I have organized events at both the Districxt and council level in the past and have never seen this form nor asked to sign anything. I actually do head up other events for Cubs in my District and help out at the District Pinewood Derby every year. ...and these are organized the same way as our event - a few people from a couple units get together and hold the events with no District involvment.

I am in the same boat as ghermanno – our district does not have a program/activities chair or program/activities committee. My district hasn’t run its own Camporee/Klondike in 3 or 4 years – they are done jointly with other Districts. When we took this event over 3 years ago we asked our respective District Committees for help in running this but got no response. So we went put it on without them. Tahawk – There are no written guidelines on what makes an event a district/council event. It’s a judgment call on whoever is making the decision. I contact

I have been in email contact with the new chair of our councils shooting sports committee. He doesn't consider our event a District/Council event so he won't approve a range. I just found out that it's another district holding the event opposite ours and it is the district where the new chair is from hmmmm...I wonder if that has anything to do with it

Thanks for all the great answers and suggestions Why the competing events? Especially if they are similar, and Cub level? We found out about the competing event “thru the grapevineâ€Â. It was confirmed by the council Shooting Sports Chair when I asked about theBB Gun trailer and having shooting at our event this year . Was there not enough notice to all involved of the prospective dates for each event? I can only answer for our event. We put out flyers with this year’s event dates on it the Monday after our event last year Is it possible to combine events? Or

I just found out that the reason we can’t get the BB Gun trailer is that the council is doing a similar event on the same weekend as our event and it will be there Our event was also talked about in the program for our corporate fundraising dinner So I guess it’s OK to use this as a council event to solicit donations from corporate sponsors but not when the council has a competing event going. The person who is giving us a hard time is the new council shooting sports committee chair. As of Jan. 1 all ranges have to be approved by them and the SE. Last year the

The Pack I am in hosts a fall Cub Scout sleep over event every year This event was started by another pack 6 or 7 years ago because our District offered very little Cub programing. When the living history museum where this was held closed we offered to take it over. We’ve grown this event into something that last year drew over 1000 people from every district in our council. Our council owns a trailer that was converted into a portable BB Gun range. This trailer has been at this event every year since the beginning. This year we have been told that the trailer is not avai

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The WEBELOS 1's in our Pack are using Scouting for Food for the Service project requirement for the Citizenship Belt Loop which is required for the Citizen Activity Badge If your Unit posts the total service hours on the JTE web site this project qualifies for Messengers of Peace Ring Emblem Item: 615442 To participate, scouts simply need to go online and register their MOP-related community service projects (including Eagle Scout projects). Doing so adds pins to a global Messengers of Peace map, showing service projects around the world. Make sure to check the Messengers of Peac

When we first started planning this we asked the Drive-In for a set fee to rent the place for the evening According to the owner he couldn't do this due to his contact with the movie distributor We actually have 3 Drive-n left in our council. The owner of this one is part owner of another one about an hour north of here. He may have to close this one because its so small they can't afford to upgrade it to show digital movies (by next year almost all movies will be in digital format) The Drive-In had it on the radio in there adds but unfortunately the local media isn't very pro-scou

Sorry for the long post but one of the other posters on here (I wont mention his name) suggested that I should do some bragging and post something about the Cub event our Pack hosted last weekend. It worked out so well it might give others the idea to try something similar. The pack I am with had been talking about hosting a Cub Scout overnight camping event for some time and last weekend we finally pulled it off. Our District has units host and plan most Cub Scout Events and Boy Scout Camp-o-rees. The last couple of years another pack hosted a fall Cub event at a local Living History Mus

Our Assistant Council Commissioner for Venturing sent me a list of the new requirements from National to be considered "trained". The only change I see is that Sea Scout Leaders no longer take Venturing Leader specific but take a new course - Sea Scout Adult Leader Basic Training (SSALBT) code P44 Having been a Skipper I was asked if I could teach this but haven't gotten a syllibus yet

Our council commissioner sent an email saying that they were changing the Venturing age requirments to being just 13 to join. I haven't seen this anywhere else. I usually see things here on the forum months before our council sends things out and I haven't seen anything posted Has anyone else heard of this?